“ Life is a Curious Thing. Winter turns to spring and Parvaneh passes her driving test. Of teaches Adrian how to change tires. The kid may have bought a Toyota, but that doesn't mean he's entirely beyon… Fredrik Backman
“ In Miamas, fairy tales are still produced around the clock, lovingly handmade one by one, and only the very, very finest of them are exported. Most are only told once and then they fall flat on the gr… Fredrik Backman
“ Rune never said anything about it. But to anyone who had known him a long time, it was as if he grew a few centimetres shorter in the years that followed. As if he sort of crumpled with a deep sigh an… Fredrik Backman
“ At some point almost everyone makes a choice. Some of us don't even notice it happening, most don't get to plan it in advance, but there's always a moment when we take one path instead of another, whi… Fredrik Backman
“ You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away, she said to him once, when he asked her why she had to be so upbeat the whole time. Apparently some monk called Francis had written as muc… Fredrik Backman
“ Further to this, Ove has the cat's resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him. Fredrik Backman
“ The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that. Fredrik Backman
“ At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life? Fredrik Backman
“ She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space. It made Ove feel as if his chest was slowly… Fredrik Backman
“ And now she stood outside the station with his flowers pressed happily to her breast, in all that red cardigan of hers, making the rest of the world look as if it was made in greyscale. Fredrik Backman
“ Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit into round holes. Fredrik Backman
“ Grow up and be different and don’t let anyone tell you not to be different, because all superheroes are different. Fredrik Backman
“ For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops. Fredrik Backman
“ She is told all the things she shouldn’t have done: She shouldn’t have waited so long before going to the police. She shouldn’t have gotten rid of the clothes she was wearing. Shouldn’t have showered.… Fredrik Backman
“ She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things. Fredrik Backman
“ It doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screamin… Fredrik Backman
“ Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he's going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not. Fredrik Backman
